Teresa Robeson
@teresarobeson
Author/Artist * Asian Pacific American Librarians Association PB winner * Writes kid lit, diversity, & science * 🇭🇰🇨🇦🇺🇸 * she/her * SO: @indianaclimate * sign up for my newsletter at teresarobeson.com and get free art + story * 🚫 DMs or MAGA
Hooray! Super psyched that #Disgustology is on the 2025 Kansas NEA list!! 🥳🥳🥳 @annamariajung.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social
Our first #watermelon harvested…grown from saved seeds. @indianaclimate.bsky.social couldn’t remember what variety it was. Turns out to be yellow and has hints of vanilla 🤔
Time is linear, but within this pale orb, you can see the future. It’s been a while since I participated in #HaikuSaturday. What with deadlines and other writing/publishing-related work, I haven’t had the time or headspace do this.
Your Friday afternoon moment of zen courtesy of a mallard momma and her babies. 🪶
Fun thread! Thanks for allowing for self-promotion! I recommend this ode to my favorite Chinese holiday (Ching Ming) and also my upcoming book which is an ode to my third favorite Chinese holiday (New Year) 😄
Early copies of my next bk w/ MIT Kids Press are here! Got to use my meteorology knowledge from uni (w/ @indianaclimate.bsky.social to consult) to write this + others in the series. Elated to write the kind of bks I’d want for my kids. Preorder: www.candlewick.com/978153624345... #FlashFloods ⛈️
Serenaded by the best as I work. Who needs Spotify or some snooty eclectic playlist? 😄🪶 #birds
It’s the Dalai Lama’s birthday! And if you don’t know much about him, find out about the pivotal moment that has led his to this point in his life in this gorgeously illustrated (by super talented Angela Poon) #GraphicNovel from @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social 🪷
Right outside the back of the house (you can see our heat pump unit)! Oh the sweetness of poults!! 😍😍 (And the wariness of momma) The weird black and green thing on the window pane was window cling that the kids made when they were as young as these poults 😄
Starting Friday with 100 (ways to write) 福, which translates approximately to “good fortune; blessing; happiness.” It’s what I wish for all of us who aren’t maga.
The country is all kinds of fucked up, but I try to take joy in creating some #nature #art and making them a part of our everyday lives, like this tablecloth with my mouse-eared chickweed design. #wildflower #SurfacePatternDesign 🌱 #Spoonflower
This #LifeDrawing #sketch is a breakfast treat. We usually eat homemade bread, toasted, but occasionally we’ll make a trip to Costco and indulge in croissants. Spousal Unit likes it with Vegemite (yes, you read that right), and I like it with homemade marmalade. French people are appalled. 😂
A bluet for Bluesky! This pretty thing is my #lifesketch #drawing for 6/15 though I had to draw from a photo I took since they didn’t sit very long in one spot. Drawn with Pentel EnerGel pens.
I just realized that for the past couple of months, I’m only interested in the QueryTracker newsletter for the gorgeous photography that Patrick McDonald puts at the end of the email. I don’t really want to query anymore but I do love me some nature photos! 😍
Here’s another everyday object I have a great appreciation for—useful, stylish, and not flimsy plastic. #LifeSketch #drawing
Baked artisan flax seed #sourdough #bread before the weather reaches the temperature of Venus again.
The unassuming window crank is the subject of today’s (or June 13th’s 😄) #LifeSketch #drawing. The #sketch and #rumination is done with a Pentel EnerGel pen.
Outside our office window yesterday, @indianaclimate.bsky.social saw a couple of Eastern Phoebes picking pesky flies off of a buck. Reminds me of Oxpeckers eating parasites off of various ungulates! A video in the comments shows one of the giant flies. #mutualism #birding #birds 🪶
The mouse that doesn’t carry Hanta virus… Another #LifeSketch #drawing of an everyday object we don’t pay much attention to, with rumination. #doodle drawn with Pentel Energel pens.
The buck stops here…right behind the house (you can see my laundry rack in the foreground) 😂
Another day, another #LifeSketch #drawing. Guess I am officially bumbling through another #100DayChallenge doing quick (around 10 minutes) #doodles + #rumination This one is drawn with #Pentel #Energel .7 pen
Haven’t had time (or brain power) to write a haiku today but I thought I would share the sorta once-a-day #sketch + accompanying brain fart that I’ve started doing…hoping I can continue it for 100 days or make it a persistent habit. #drawing #LifeSketch
Grape jelly, wild blackberry jelly, and grapefruit marmalade…every year! 😋
Omg…just found this screen capture from September of 2022. And things have indeed devolved thanks to TV networks. Boycott them all. 🤬
Sooo excited to announce that I will be doing another book with the super awesome @celinasun.bsky.social !! 💖 And it will be set in #HongKong, my place of birth! 😍 🌱
